Hell yeah man. I’d like to add one thing, and it’s this. We are all local to somewhere, that somewhere is predicated on how we, or our parents for the youngins, have lived our life. Our 150 people circles or however you view it, overlap and interact with other peoples circles. The areas of overlap are where we learn to work together and how our circles change over time. Otherwise life would stagnate.
I really like your line “small is beautiful” and not just because I’m 5’6 😁Small tribes for the win!
But we were sold a lie when they said the internet would “make the world a smaller place”. We thought it would be a good thing across the board, and it has its positives. This conversation would never have happened without it for instance. But it broke us. We took all the world’s population of “data” and shoved it into a space that only holds 150 people and said, “here deal with this now”
That works for people who are people pleassrs and accepted into society readily. I was 'smart' in school. I didn't find my people until I got into bigger societies... because there weren't other people on my wavelength in my small town. When I chose to attachment parent my kids, phenomenon repeated. Then when my kids were vax injured, same thing. During covid, same thing. We have to have the bigger groups for us to find our people who see us as human when we no longer fit their narrative comfortably. Basically, I've not seen that people have your back even if you are a human to them, except in rare circumstances. I don't know where this research for 150 came from, but I'm super skeptical of it.
I have been imagining what this Shift in Consciousness is going to look like in five years, fifteen years, twenty five years.
One thing that's become clear is that it will result in small groupings of people whose realities match.
Other groups with dissimilar realities will co-exist, but will be outside of the influence of our own, and vice-versa.
It's no accident that we (you) are addressing to this idea with the awareness that we don't have to concern ourselves with the whole world.
The Shifted world will be unrecognizable. Once we realize that we create all of our reality, and that it can differ substantially from what others are creating, we can begin to circle our wagons, so-to-speak.
It is not selfish, nor fanciful, to believe that such a world is possible.
Not very many people are aware of what is coming. I will continue to speak to it as it becomes more apparent.
There's a lot of force in what you way, but here's a counter-vision: a healthy human being both has the personal circle of 150 AND has strong empathic feelings for the rest of humanity, though he cannot know them personally. They aren't NPCs; they each have dreams, views, and agency, which come across even when we bump into one momentarily.
What about "You are a thing to them. A source of money to extract. A cause of fear."? This describes sociopaths, who represent about 3% of the population by some estimates. These people, and pretty much these people alone, are motivated to seek and seize power over others.
I come to the same conclusion as you do: large government entities are destructive to human flourishing. Sociopaths are much easier to manage, and their scale of destruction much reduced, when their efforts are confined to the set of people who know them well.
I’m a highly sensitive person (HSP). I’m not sure if you are familiar with us. Psychologist Elaine Aron coined the term. Brain imagery of HSPs show that areas of empathy “light up” more so when compared to not as sensitive types. We have more “mirror neurons” that make us feel exactly what others are feeling. There’s much more to it than that, but I’d have to quote the whole book. So, when I see others in pain (emotional or physical) I feel it. It doesn’t matter if I know the person or not. Dr Aron believes this to be an evolutionary trait. There’s also more brain activity in the area of the brain that’s believed to be “the seat of consciousness.” It also helps when deciding if something is dangerous or not, kind of like self preservation.
Anyway, I see everyone as human beings and not as NPCs. I was also raised to treat others the way you’d want to be treated. For example, if I enjoy having the liberty to decide for myself what goes into my body, then others should be afforded the same choice even if it’s different. Loving your neighbor means loving them through that difference. Human beings seem to forget this.
Also, I think a lot of other things can contribute to feeling disconnected from others like addiction and traumas (including childhood trauma carried out at the hands of emotionally absent parents). If people weaned themselves off the tv, their phones, social media, etc I think we would return to feeling connected. We wouldn’t be turning to the internet for everything. Imagine if we got rid of big grocery stores and banks. We need less centralized power, less monopolies. Education needs to be more free as well. I read in a book the other day “Today’s academicism does not allow for the acquisition of knowledge through intuition and psychism, an attitude placing it in paradoxical contradiction to a high proportion of those great thinkers whom the humanities study and purport to revere. In humanities, the universities have deteriorated into observers of, rather than participants in, the development of mankind’s creative and intellectual faculties.” The Qabalistic Tarot by Robert Wang. I think society has been intentionally structured in this way (the stunting of the development of mankind’s creative and intellectual faculties). If we had a society full of people who have developed intuition and psychic abilities, our habits wouldn’t be predictable. What we create would come from an infinite source, we grow unhindered in many directions. Right now, I feel our imaginations have been high jacked by schools and electronics. Life is a school. We’re supposed to be exploring and experimenting. We’re designed for it. Too many people are so busy watching what others have created or are wrapped up in the thoughts of others that very few people actually live.
Overall, I agree with you. The problem however is that there are 330 million or so of us---just in this country. Break up everyone in small groups and self-govern. My first year in high school, there were 54 of us--whole school not my class. We moved to another base and the next new years the average of the school was roughly 200. Then my last year we went to a very large base, 600 just in the senior class. Somehow, I still learned all the seniors and tried to socialize with all of them. But it was very tough to do.I think you're right 100%. But maybe some 150 person group decides to invade the next one. It would happen.
You're not going to convince that none of the 2.2 million communities would never interfere or let all the other communities be. So there must be a structure, a council. or some type of governing structure to let people be protected from the community that wants to invade them.
You are living in your imagination otherwise.
And by the way, "democracy" is not wrong, but there are no democracies of 3+ million people which is why I don't like nation states anymore than you do.
My family ain't even a democracy, and there's not that many here anymore, but still someone has to defer if there is a difference, but a group must be small enough where everyone can have their say, and if all goes well you might respect each enough to come to a consensus. But how do you come to any understanding between communities if there is no communication between them? Maybe our current structure does not provide that, I think it doesn't do it very well. But I can't foresee an absence of some structure for dialogue and for preventing the disagreeable from taking over those they might disagree with.
Exactly! We are not enemies we are brothers and sisters. So much ridiculous divisions today and animosity between even men and women. The guys I know feel like the majority of women don’t feel like they need a man. For real I don’t know if they’re listening to some Feminazi stuff or what but I just had my car break down and called a friend to come help. And I want to say to all the men I know thank God for you guys!!! So yeah you were just the first one besides of course my friend who came to help me. As soon as I saw him I felt better !!! 😊
I agree with all of this in theory. But how do we square this with the dismal record of communes? Shouldn’t communes be great? Yet they often descend into madness. See, eg, Wild, Wild Country 🤣.
Why? Shouldn’t these monkeysphere-sized communities be utopian? Or have I been propagandized as to the failure rate of communes?
At Babel God separated the people and cultures and created new languages for them to avoid Nimrod creating the first New World Order. The spirit of Nimrod has attempted to revive it ever since…
Hell yeah man. I’d like to add one thing, and it’s this. We are all local to somewhere, that somewhere is predicated on how we, or our parents for the youngins, have lived our life. Our 150 people circles or however you view it, overlap and interact with other peoples circles. The areas of overlap are where we learn to work together and how our circles change over time. Otherwise life would stagnate.
I really like your line “small is beautiful” and not just because I’m 5’6 😁Small tribes for the win!
But we were sold a lie when they said the internet would “make the world a smaller place”. We thought it would be a good thing across the board, and it has its positives. This conversation would never have happened without it for instance. But it broke us. We took all the world’s population of “data” and shoved it into a space that only holds 150 people and said, “here deal with this now”
What do you think is gonna happen next?
That works for people who are people pleassrs and accepted into society readily. I was 'smart' in school. I didn't find my people until I got into bigger societies... because there weren't other people on my wavelength in my small town. When I chose to attachment parent my kids, phenomenon repeated. Then when my kids were vax injured, same thing. During covid, same thing. We have to have the bigger groups for us to find our people who see us as human when we no longer fit their narrative comfortably. Basically, I've not seen that people have your back even if you are a human to them, except in rare circumstances. I don't know where this research for 150 came from, but I'm super skeptical of it.
I have been imagining what this Shift in Consciousness is going to look like in five years, fifteen years, twenty five years.
One thing that's become clear is that it will result in small groupings of people whose realities match.
Other groups with dissimilar realities will co-exist, but will be outside of the influence of our own, and vice-versa.
It's no accident that we (you) are addressing to this idea with the awareness that we don't have to concern ourselves with the whole world.
The Shifted world will be unrecognizable. Once we realize that we create all of our reality, and that it can differ substantially from what others are creating, we can begin to circle our wagons, so-to-speak.
It is not selfish, nor fanciful, to believe that such a world is possible.
Not very many people are aware of what is coming. I will continue to speak to it as it becomes more apparent.
There's a lot of force in what you way, but here's a counter-vision: a healthy human being both has the personal circle of 150 AND has strong empathic feelings for the rest of humanity, though he cannot know them personally. They aren't NPCs; they each have dreams, views, and agency, which come across even when we bump into one momentarily.
What about "You are a thing to them. A source of money to extract. A cause of fear."? This describes sociopaths, who represent about 3% of the population by some estimates. These people, and pretty much these people alone, are motivated to seek and seize power over others.
I come to the same conclusion as you do: large government entities are destructive to human flourishing. Sociopaths are much easier to manage, and their scale of destruction much reduced, when their efforts are confined to the set of people who know them well.
I agree with what you said. No surprise there, I'm sure. Also, I miss when Cracked was actually worth reading. Sigh.
I don't think I know 150 people that well.
I have a family of 5 in my house.
My parents make it 7
My sister and her family make it 11.
The other 139 are people at work and maybe friends of my family.
Living in a polity of 150 would still be lonely for me.
Because the four people in my house don't talk to me on a daily basis.
I’m a highly sensitive person (HSP). I’m not sure if you are familiar with us. Psychologist Elaine Aron coined the term. Brain imagery of HSPs show that areas of empathy “light up” more so when compared to not as sensitive types. We have more “mirror neurons” that make us feel exactly what others are feeling. There’s much more to it than that, but I’d have to quote the whole book. So, when I see others in pain (emotional or physical) I feel it. It doesn’t matter if I know the person or not. Dr Aron believes this to be an evolutionary trait. There’s also more brain activity in the area of the brain that’s believed to be “the seat of consciousness.” It also helps when deciding if something is dangerous or not, kind of like self preservation.
Anyway, I see everyone as human beings and not as NPCs. I was also raised to treat others the way you’d want to be treated. For example, if I enjoy having the liberty to decide for myself what goes into my body, then others should be afforded the same choice even if it’s different. Loving your neighbor means loving them through that difference. Human beings seem to forget this.
Also, I think a lot of other things can contribute to feeling disconnected from others like addiction and traumas (including childhood trauma carried out at the hands of emotionally absent parents). If people weaned themselves off the tv, their phones, social media, etc I think we would return to feeling connected. We wouldn’t be turning to the internet for everything. Imagine if we got rid of big grocery stores and banks. We need less centralized power, less monopolies. Education needs to be more free as well. I read in a book the other day “Today’s academicism does not allow for the acquisition of knowledge through intuition and psychism, an attitude placing it in paradoxical contradiction to a high proportion of those great thinkers whom the humanities study and purport to revere. In humanities, the universities have deteriorated into observers of, rather than participants in, the development of mankind’s creative and intellectual faculties.” The Qabalistic Tarot by Robert Wang. I think society has been intentionally structured in this way (the stunting of the development of mankind’s creative and intellectual faculties). If we had a society full of people who have developed intuition and psychic abilities, our habits wouldn’t be predictable. What we create would come from an infinite source, we grow unhindered in many directions. Right now, I feel our imaginations have been high jacked by schools and electronics. Life is a school. We’re supposed to be exploring and experimenting. We’re designed for it. Too many people are so busy watching what others have created or are wrapped up in the thoughts of others that very few people actually live.
Overall, I agree with you. The problem however is that there are 330 million or so of us---just in this country. Break up everyone in small groups and self-govern. My first year in high school, there were 54 of us--whole school not my class. We moved to another base and the next new years the average of the school was roughly 200. Then my last year we went to a very large base, 600 just in the senior class. Somehow, I still learned all the seniors and tried to socialize with all of them. But it was very tough to do.I think you're right 100%. But maybe some 150 person group decides to invade the next one. It would happen.
You're not going to convince that none of the 2.2 million communities would never interfere or let all the other communities be. So there must be a structure, a council. or some type of governing structure to let people be protected from the community that wants to invade them.
You are living in your imagination otherwise.
And by the way, "democracy" is not wrong, but there are no democracies of 3+ million people which is why I don't like nation states anymore than you do.
My family ain't even a democracy, and there's not that many here anymore, but still someone has to defer if there is a difference, but a group must be small enough where everyone can have their say, and if all goes well you might respect each enough to come to a consensus. But how do you come to any understanding between communities if there is no communication between them? Maybe our current structure does not provide that, I think it doesn't do it very well. But I can't foresee an absence of some structure for dialogue and for preventing the disagreeable from taking over those they might disagree with.
Exactly! We are not enemies we are brothers and sisters. So much ridiculous divisions today and animosity between even men and women. The guys I know feel like the majority of women don’t feel like they need a man. For real I don’t know if they’re listening to some Feminazi stuff or what but I just had my car break down and called a friend to come help. And I want to say to all the men I know thank God for you guys!!! So yeah you were just the first one besides of course my friend who came to help me. As soon as I saw him I felt better !!! 😊
Better a barrel of monkeys than a bucket of crabs.
I agree with all of this in theory. But how do we square this with the dismal record of communes? Shouldn’t communes be great? Yet they often descend into madness. See, eg, Wild, Wild Country 🤣.
Why? Shouldn’t these monkeysphere-sized communities be utopian? Or have I been propagandized as to the failure rate of communes?
Can the monkeys in the infinite monkey theorem form a monkeysphere? Would this lead to a monkeytesseract?
Chris
This article brought up the song by Beck called
“Loser”
With the first line of lyrics
“In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey”
Great analysis
Continue onward
Jon
At Babel God separated the people and cultures and created new languages for them to avoid Nimrod creating the first New World Order. The spirit of Nimrod has attempted to revive it ever since…
True!
Fabulous piece. Good on you and Demi.